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Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840

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  • Jones, Peter M.

    (Department of History, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham)

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Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment. It focuses on the second half of the eighteenth century and emphasises the role of useful knowledge in the process of agrarian change and agricultural development. As such it invites economic historians to respond to the challenge issued by Joel Mokyr to look beyond quantitative data and to take seriously the argument that cultural factors, broadly understood, may have aided or hindered the evolution of agriculture in the early modern period ('what people knew and believed' had a direct bearing on their economic behaviour [Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy]). Evidence in support of the idea that a readily accessible supply of agricultural knowledge helps to explain the trajectory of the rural economy is drawn from all of the countries of Europe. The book includes two cases studies of rapid rural modernization in Scotland and Denmark where Agricultural Enlightenment was swiftly followed by full-scale Agricultural Revolution.

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  • Jones, Peter M., 2016. "Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198716075.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198716075
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    1. J. Marc MacDonald, 2017. "Malthus and the Philanthropists, 1764–1859: The Cultural Circulation of Political Economy, Botany, and Natural Knowledge," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(1), pages 1-33, January.
    2. Jensen, Peter Sandholt & Sharp, Paul & Skovsgaard, Christian Volmar, 2018. "Getting to Denmark' : the Role of Elites for Development," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH 26211, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola.
    3. David Max Findley & Noel Amano & Ivana Biong & Greg Bankoff & Patricia Irene Dacudao & Francis Gealogo & Rebecca Hamilton & Ruel Pagunsan & Patrick Roberts, 2024. "Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870–1925 CE," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
    4. Huang, Kaixing, 2020. "Agricultural Productivity and Income Divergence: Evidence from the Green Revolution," MPRA Paper 108357, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 16 Jun 2021.

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